# bf_connect_player(CONN, PLAYER) --> *FTP!!*

Gustavo Glusman (bmgustav@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il)
Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:24:55 PDT

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    Michael Moore wrote:

    >Well.  Invalid objects can't have properties or verbs. The only other

    >'properties' associated with negative object numbers are those having
    to

    >do with the incominc connections they represent...accessible via the

    >builtins for reading and setting connection options.

    >

    >I don't know enough about connection options to know how to store a
    user

    >name...but I'd bet it is possible, somehow.  :)

    >

    >Do I get a prize?  Half of one?  ;)

    Well, I guess you deserve half a point, because your answer was
    incomplete. ;)

    But basically it's 100% correct. You can store any string you like (and
    obviously other values, in string format) in the "flush-command"
    connection option.

    No need, then, to keep the info in some property that gets outdated as
    soon as the connection is closed, or that might get lost if some verb
    is badly programmed, etc. As long as the connection is there and the
    information is needed, it's just there. Of course, you'd want to reset
    the option once you got the password.

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